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Show act THE REVIEW. oe 2 + — | 5 oe - 5 THE Simple So BEAD PUZZLE. Any in Construction That Can Make It. Its construction Child the the mate- is simple, rials not costly and the only tools required a brad-awl and pocketknife. Its construction is the only simple thing about it—at least. I fancy this is | what say. will those not in the “know” I fear, too, I shall have a difficul- ty in making However, I will do heads again, reverse again. to ‘To part the order of procedure. 7 If you wish to make a more complicated puzzle. you have only to add to the length of the strip of wood; but, in makiug the holes, remember they must run alternately — beginning with a bradawl hole, then an oval hole, a over bradawl! hole again, and so on, finishiny with a bradawl hole. my best, though, You may form as many ‘“‘loops” as you like, and amuse yourself by getting all the beads on any one particular loop. Or you may astonish your quite myself the ‘tpuzzle”’ part. sinvle loop. Vass it through the left, and there you are. clear eventu- I doubt not. many boys would friends beads by asking them they would like how placed. many on any particular loop. You retire to a secluded corner of the 2 VY , THE BEAD Oe. PUZZLE. ally succeed in solving the difficulty without any explanation. I say, then. after you have made the puzzle try and room, or place your hands under the table, and lo! the ‘‘passage”’ is effected. Let your friends plainly understand the beads will not pass through the oval holes. By the way, if you use a number of beads, the twine must be continuous, without knots, and carefully looped into each oval hole,— solve it before you read up the explanations. : | ' Take a piece of hard wood, an inch wide and six inches long. At half: an inch from either end make a_ brad-aw!] Some Impossible Things. Like Johnnie's pocket without a string, Like a robin redbreast that cannot ging, Like a primer without an A BC, hole. Li!-c mother's needle without a thread, Inthe middle cut out a small oval hole. Procure two glass beads. which must be too large to pass through the ovualhole. Takea piece of twine about eighteen inches long, double it tt the middle and pass the loop through the oval hole, and then pass the two ends of the twine through the loop. Take a bead and thread it on one of the ends of the twine, and fasten that end to one of the brad-awl holes. Do the si. ne with the other bead and end of twine, and brad-awl fasten at the opposite hole. Your puzzle is now complete, and pass through the oval hole, is not easy. EXPLANATION.—Draw take the the oval down the cen- and pass the ri¢ght-band bead it toward the oval hole. Then tro strings passing hole of clover without a bee, Lilce a peacock without a tail to spread, Like a grown-up world without girls and boys ts a Fourth or July without a noise. —Anna M. Fratt. in Youth’s Companion. ae His ee Turn Now. ‘What a horrid noise you are making,” exclaimed Susie Shattuck to her little brother, ‘*banging your torpedoes and firecrackers all over the place?” “Why shouldn’t 1?” retorted Freddy. ‘You indulge in banging your hair all the year round.”—Detroit One More Free Press. Unfortunate. They find him where he moaning ought to appear like the diagram. The puzzle is to get the two. beads together. ‘This. seeing they are too larze to ter loop through Lileaseld and draw them throuch toward you. The loop will be-drawn throuch the hole from the opposite side, but it will now be adouble one. Pass the bead through to the left and let slac’x. The bead will now be confined by a lies And in his bed they tuck him. He tried to celebrate the day, And never knew what struck him. Repartee of the Fourth. aded. The Toy Pistol—I'm lo gay: or The Trigger—Don’t get Record. fire you.—Chicago — Poor ——————— Vil — Business —_ for a Patriot. husband doesn’t Mrs.. Blim—Your er people seem to be rejoiciug like oth on his country’s birthday. He has most of his Mrs. Secads—No. nce commoney invested in a fire insura pany.—-Puck. anlage oe gee net? |